Trump’s first 100 days: Govt order blitz exposes GOP gridlock

[ad_1] Tuesday marks President Donald Trump's first 100 days again within the White Home, and it has been outlined largely by the almost 140 govt orders he has signed.

The attention-popping quantity is all of the starker when in comparison with the variety of legal guidelines handed by Congress and signed by the commander in chief – simply 5 whole.

Three of these had been aimed toward repealing Biden administration regulatory insurance policies put in place in the course of the earlier 4 years.

One other merchandise consists of the stopgap authorities funding extension handed in March to keep away from a partial federal shutdown.

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President Trump's govt orders have far outpaced Congress' lawmaking. (Reuters)

And the primary invoice signed into regulation by Trump – and the one merchandise of recent coverage on the checklist – is the Laken Riley Act. It is a landmark new regulation that permits Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to take into custody any unlawful immigrant who has been charged with theft or different crimes.

However up to now, Trump has largely acted alone in his endeavors, with govt orders aimed toward dismantling the Division of Schooling, retaining transgender ladies out of organic ladies's areas, and others.

As compared, Congress handed 30 payments that had been signed into regulation by Trump within the first 100 days of his first time period. The primary 100 days of the Biden, Obama and Bush administrations noticed 11, 14, and 7 legal guidelines signed, respectively.

Two Trump allies in Congress, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Eric Burlison, R-Mo., had been pissed off on the extensive hole between their physique and the White Home.

"I believe Congress is the one which's failing on the job," Greene instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday.

She stated her specific situation was Republicans not being additional alongside of their plans for a large Trump legislative coverage overhaul by way of the budget reconciliation process. Home GOP leaders have stated for months that they need it completed by the spring or summer season, nonetheless.

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Congress' sluggish tempo. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon, file)

"We did not do our reconciliation over the primary 100 days, and I believe that is a failure," Greene stated. "I've saved my mouth shut. I stay hopeful, hoping that we will get this achieved within the Home and the Senate. However I've grown pissed off."

Burlison instructed Fox Information Digital, "I would give Trump an A, an A+. I would give Congress a D."

"Congress must reciprocate the type of daring imaginative and prescient and braveness that Trump has taken, notably with DOGE," Burlison stated.

In the meantime, Democrats have accused congressional Republicans of giving up their energy to Trump together with his flurry of govt actions.

"I consider now could be the time for Congress to reassert the constitutional authority it continues to cede to the manager department," Rep. John Mannion, D-N.Y., stated throughout a Tuesday press convention.

However Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Congress had not ceded any authority to Trump when requested by Fox Information Digital on Friday.

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Home Speaker Mike Johnson stated Congress is working to meet Trump's agenda. (Getty Pictures)

"I do not assume we have ceded any authority. I believe that he is doing what's inside his scope to do," Johnson stated. "I do not assume he is crossed the road but. If he does, or if he did, you recognize, I might handle it with him personally as a priority, as a companion, and clarify that I believe it has been overdone."

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He additionally stated Congress was working towards fulfilling extra of Trump's legislative priorities, whereas noting the processes for taking motion had been vastly completely different between the manager and legislative branches.

"We have set to work it via our processes and get, you recognize, 218 votes on the whole lot. So we have been doing that, which you may see the roll out of that in flip right here within the subsequent few weeks as properly," he stated.

"We have got achieved lots of the bottom work, lots of these legislative automobiles via the committee course of. So now we have now them on deck to only roll out and start to cross via and ship over to the Senate."

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Each day Mail and CBS Information.